Planning Department to study leisure habits
The Planning Department today (Tuesday) signed an agreement to commission a firm to conduct a "Study of Leisure Habits/Recreation Preferences and Review of Chapter 4 of the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines".
"The objective of the study is to review the present planning standards and guidelines on recreational facilities and open space to meet the changing needs of the community," a spokesman for the department said.
"The study will identify the broad pattern and the usage of existing and planned recreational facilities and open space."
Sample surveys will be carried out to examine recreational preferences of households and commercial/industrial workers and derive the likely future trends on leisure habits.
"Interviews with developers and recreation authorities and organisations will also be conducted to collect their views on the provision of recreational facilities in the territory.
"The findings of these tasks will provide input for reviewing and revising the present planning standards and guidelines," the spokesman added.
Starting today, the study will be completed in nine months.
End/Tuesday, October 17, 1995
Over 6,500 agreements lodged with Land Registry in September
A total of 6,506 sale and purchase agreements for building units, which include both residential and non-residential properties, were lodged with the Land Registry last month (September 1995).
The figure represents a decrease of 3.8 per cent from that of August 1995 and a 15 per cent decrease compared with September last year.
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